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the unit so small a paperclip outweighs it, yet rules entire pharmacies and kitchens
means A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a kilogram, used for measuring small quantities of just about anything.
from From French 'gramme,' borrowed from Late Latin 'gramma,' a small unit of weight, which came from Greek 'gramma' — literally 'something written,' a letter or mark, from 'graphein,' to write. The leap from 'a written letter' to 'a tiny weight' happened in late antiquity, when 'gramma' came to mean a small standard measure, perhaps because such amounts were the smallest worth noting down. The metric system, born of the French Revolution's hunger for rational measurement, plucked the old word and gave it a precise new life.
- paperclip math
- One standard paperclip weighs about one gram
- latin roots
- From Greek 'gramma,' meaning a small weight
- water trick
- One milliliter of water weighs exactly one gram
- slang life
- Doubles as shorthand for Instagram everywhere
- metric backbone
- Base of the kilogram, once the world's mass standard
chandrasekhar limit — mass threshold of 1.4 solar masses beyond which stars collapse into neutron stars
kilogram standard — international prototype kilogram kept at bipm in paris until 2019, defined 1000 grams
gram stain — bacterial staining method invented by hans christian gram in 1884 to identify gram-positive vs gram-negative bacteria